About Adoption: How Do You Prepare for the Holidays?

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Adoption Adoption Adoption Basics Parenting Advice Foster Care From Carrie Craft, your Guide to Adoption The holiday season can always be a bit stressful for foster and adoptive parents as the holidays often bring up family memories for children. Share how you handle the holidays with other families! How Do You Prepare Your Foster Children for the Holidays Holidays are usually centered around "family." Yet, foster children are separated from their families and are reminded of family at almost all holiday gatherings. Add on the fact that holidays are also an extremely busy time of the year and you may have a great recipe for chaos. So, how do you go about preparing your foster children for the holiday season? How do you keep sanity at family parties? Share your foster parenting tips and sanity keeping secrets with the rest of us. A Favorite Adoption Gift that I have Received or Given..... Please take a moment and share a favorite adoption gift that you have received or given to another. It doesn't matter the recipient - whether the adoption gift was for the adoptive family, the birth family, or the adoptee. It doesn't matter the occasion - the child's adoption day, National adoption month, Christmas, Birthday, Mother or Father's Day. Please share! How Do You Handle Food Issues in Your Home? The holidays usually mean a lot of food, what with numerous family dinners! Food issues can range from food hoarding, gorging, bulimia or anorexia, to even just extremely picky eaters. Food issues can be a challenge for foster and adoptive families, so share how you have tackled these food issues in your home. See More About:  adoptive parenting  foster parenting  child behavior problems Join me on Facebook! Adoption / Foster Care Ads Adoption Holidays No Fee Adoption Babies for Adoption Foster Care Featured Articles Foster Children and Your Extended Family During the Holidays How to Be a Great Foster Parent African American Hair Styles Adoption Search & Reunion Join the Community Talk with Members of the Adoption Triad   More from About.com Great Gadget Gifts iPad or iPod? Kindle or Nook? Point-and-shoot or DIL camera? If you're confused by this year's must-have gadgets, check out our top picks. More> The Gift of Entertainment The lowdown on the latest holiday releases, plus recommendations on the best in music, movies and more. More> This newsletter is written by: Carrie Craft Adoption Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Adoption newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   This Week's Must Reads 7 Ways to Prepare Yourself, Your Family, and Your Foster Child Top 2010 Adoption and Foster Care News Top 9 Adoption Gifts Advertisement